ART PAPERS 44.04 - Summer 2021

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ART PAPERS Summer 2021 explores practices that reimagine or represent speculative, non-normative forms of masculinity. The issue explicitly centers LGBTQIA+ and men/masculine artists of color. These creators have long understood that masculinity has been constructed at the tangled intersection of heteronormativity, capitalist logic, and white supremacy. This issue seeks out practices that not only interrogate masculinity, but reimagine it: ones which move beyond critique toward propositions, reconfigurations, and liberatory ways of being masculine.

Vol. 44, Issue 4 — Summer 2021
Speculative Masculinities

Editor’s Letter
Sarah Higgins

Infectious Materials, Molecular Memories
Sasha Cordingley with Jes Fan

Blue Cripistemologies: In and Around Derek Jarman
Christopher Robert Jones

The Silence We Hold Between Our Bodies
Re’al Christian with Kenneth Tam

Yo soy mi padre: Carlos Leppe’s Transgressive Masculinities
Joseph Shaikewitz

ARTIST PROJECT

do / you
Jason Lipeles

Operating Along Desire
Tyra A. Seals with Derrick Woods-Morrow

REVIEWS 

ATLANTA
Logan Lockner
Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction
Atlanta Contemporary

ZÜRICH
Sandro Weilenmann
The Sense of Things—William Forsythe
Kunsthaus Zürich

BOOK
Noah Rawlings
Show & Tell: On Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Knopf

NEW YORK
Anthony Hawley
Eye Contact—Fabienne Lasserre
TURN Gallery

Glossary: Autosexuality (n.)
Shehab Awad

Cover image: Kenneth Tam, Silent Spikes (still), 2021 [courtesy of the artist]